Yesterday, InformationWeek had an “article” titled “Enterprises See Risks In Cloud“. I’m the first to admit that I’m drenched in the salesforce.com cool-aid, but come on, it’s 2010 and InformationWeek is still skeptical about cloud computing? Is this a scare tactic or just a Unisys ad disguised as a tech article.

The so-called article states that Unisys polled 120 enterprise users and “essentially” asked them if they would move their mission critical apps to the cloud? They go on to state that 46% of those polled would start moving development and support applications to the cloud, another 22% would move disaster recovery services, another 17% would move QA and pre-production services, and only another 15% would move mission critical applications. I’m not a math whiz, but that means that 100% of those polled said they would move some of their in-house services to the cloud. 100%, not a single respondent said that they were totally disinterested in cloud computing; to me, that’s a huge win and a much bigger headline (it’s also a huge indicator of a flawed survey or rigged results).

The article has some quotes form a VP at Unisys and goes on to state that all of the respondents “valued cloud computing” but were “reluctant to give up control”. Finally, it mentions that the survey was part of a marketing campaign for Unisys Secure Cloud Solution! Shenanigans!! I said it, you read it, this is blatent marketing and not real research or a real article. If you don’t believe me, just visit the “About” link on InformationWeek.com‘s footer, the title of the page is “Create your next customer”. Their parent corporation’s entire business is based on selling ads as “articles”.

Well, InformationWeek, we too have done a survey, and it was of 121 enterprise users and they all said that they that cloud computing is secure. They all said that they regularly give away their credit card number on the web while making online purchases, divulge their deepest secrets via hosted email, expose their most precious and embarrassing moments via photo-sharing sites, and even allow their locations and activity to be tracked at all times on social sites. 100% of respondents went on to say that they would pick MK Partners to implement their mission critical apps on the cloud over any other consulting firm.

What are your thoughts on the cloud? Do you trust it? Have you moved mission critical apps to it? If not, what’s stopping you? Let us know in the comments.